01c. 1855 ADWhoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
02c. 1855 ADThe only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
03c. 1855 ADIt is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
04c. 1855 ADWhat a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
05c. 1855 ADThere is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
06c. 1855 ADLet us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
07c. 1855 ADThe soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
08c. 1855 ADA great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
09c. 1855 ADIt ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
10c. 1855 ADHe gives us the very quintessence of perception,—the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
11c. 1855 ADIf I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly come by.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
12c. 1855 ADLet us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
13c. 1855 ADFaith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,—a creed ample enough for this life and the next.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
15c. 1855 ADIt is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
17c. 1855 ADThe only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
18c. 1855 ADA great writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
19c. 1855 ADAll men who know not where to look for truth, save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom and mistake it for what they are seeking.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
21c. 1855 ADA wise writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
23c. 1855 ADBrain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
24c. 1855 ADEvil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
